Privileged and Confidential

Privileged and Confidential
Author: Kenneth Michael Absher
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2012-09-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0813140625

The history of one of the most secretive segments of America’s intelligence community. Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, DC, is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the US intelligence community. Established in 1956, the PIAB advises the president about intelligence collection, analysis, and estimates, and about the legality of foreign intelligence activities. Privileged and Confidential is the first and only study of the PIAB. Foreign policy veterans Kenneth Michael Absher, Michael C. Desch, and Roman Popadiuk trace the board’s history from Eisenhower through Obama and evaluate its effectiveness under each president. Created to be an independent panel of nonpartisan experts, the PIAB has become increasingly susceptible to politics in recent years and has lost some of its influence. The authors, however, clearly demonstrate the board’s potential to offer a unique and valuable perspective on intelligence issues. Privileged and Confidential not only illuminates a little-known element of US intelligence operations but also offers suggestions for enhancing a critical executive function.

Confidential

Confidential
Author: Meir Doron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Businessmen
ISBN: 9780615433813

Describes the life of the Hollywood personality who led a double life as a spy for Israel involved in secret negotiations for that country's nuclear arsenal while he was working as a Hollywood producer for high-profile movies.

Confidential

Confidential
Author: John Nolan
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Business intelligence
ISBN: 9780066619842

A former federal intelligence officer reveals how companies can gather the intelligence they need to meet (and beat) the competition, while keeping their own valuable secrets under wraps.

Corporate Confidential

Corporate Confidential
Author: Cynthia Shapiro
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2005-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429968354

Cynthia Shapiro is a former Human Resources executive who's pulling back the curtain on the way that companies really work. In Corporate Confidential, she unmasks startling truths and what you can do about them, including: * There's no right to free speech in the workplace. *Age discrimination exists. * Why being too smart is not too smart. * Human Resources is not there to help you, but to protect the company from you. * And forty-five more! Cynthia Shapiro pulls no punches, giving readers an inside look at a secret world of hidden agendas they would never normally see. A world of insider information and insights that can save a career!

High School Confidential

High School Confidential
Author: Jeremy Iversen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2006-09-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0743293827

It's spring semester at Mirador High in Southern California, and twenty-four-year-old Jeremy Iversen is going deep undercover to deliver the real deal about the dull classes and fast times of American teens today. Trading in his suit and tie for jeans and skater shoes, Iversen posed as a senior transfer student. He took six classes five days a week, dissected a cat, got sent to detention, hung out at the mall, signed yearbooks, and graduated in cap and gown. He infiltrated the homes of his teenage friends, met their parents, and went to their parties. For one entire semester, he led the life of a modern-day high school student -- and lived to tell all about it. Going way beyond the usual clichés of jock and nerd, the book introduces readers to a revolving cast of fascinating characters from every walk of social life: promiscuous freshmen girls, lunchtime alcoholics, evangelical Christians, perfectionist drug dealers, masochistic vampires, steroid-raging baseball stars, and one principal who will stop at nothing to make her failing school look good. In this fast-paced exposé, Jeremy Iversen blows the lid off a secret world in which the sexual revolution runs unchecked, where the use of recreational drugs is chronic, and where apathetic teachers don't even bother to teach. This Wild West wonderland, however, lives by strict unwritten rules and ultraconservative politics, creating a pressure cooker of conflict that's bound to explode. High School Confidential isn't confidential anymore.

Doctor Confidential

Doctor Confidential
Author: Richard Sheff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Healing
ISBN: 9780983081906

The unique stories in Doctor Confidential speak directly to anyone in medical training or considering a career in medicine, but also to the patient in all of us. Pulling back the veil of secrecy that too often surrounds medicine, Doctor Confidential provides compassion, humor, and ultimately hope that, when sick and most vulnerable, each of us can be heard, understood, and deeply touched by our physician.

Business Confidential

Business Confidential
Author: Peter Earnest
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814414486

Sound like the CIA, or what you do at the office every day?

Official and Confidential

Official and Confidential
Author: Anthony Summers
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1453241183

A New York Times–bestselling author’s revealing, “important” biography of the longtime FBI director (The Philadelphia Inquirer). No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands of documents to get at the truth about the man who headed the FBI for fifty years, persecuted political enemies, blackmailed politicians, and lived his own surprising secret life. Ultimately, Summers paints a portrait of a fatally flawed individual who should never have held such power, and for so long.

Classroom Confidential

Classroom Confidential
Author: Louisa Leaman
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2006-02-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780826485410

"My role as a Behaviour Support Teacher involves classroom observations and feedback to teachers on issues relating to challenging behaviour. This gives me the refreshing opportunity to spend time watching real teachers do real teaching, and deal with the very real problems that arise in their classrooms. My advice is personalised towards the individuals I am working with, but along the way, I have noticed a few commonalities regarding what works and what doesn't." It is these commonalities that provide the basis of this book. Louisa Leaman provides advice on every aspect of teaching, from the structure and content of lessons, right through to setting boundaries, dealing with bullies, and collaborating with other staff.

Body Language Confidential

Body Language Confidential
Author: Traci Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780615794365

People are always communicating with you. Do you know what they’re saying? You are always communicating with others. Do you know what message you’re sending? In Body Language Confidential, you’ll quickly learn how to read and use specific body language so that you can instantly: •Immediately create powerful relationships •Interview-and get the job •Increase sales •Gain Instant Trust •Elegantly persuade others •Get Your Kids and Spouse to do what you want them to